Mohr Circles, Stress Paths and Geotechnics

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CRC Press, Aug 2, 2004 - Technology & Engineering - 280 pages
The second edition of this well established book has been comprehensively updated in line with recent developments. After presenting the fundamentals of stress and strain, and their graphical representation, the book includes chapters on failure states in soils and rocks, observed and elastic paths, and the use of discontinuities.

New sections include shear bands and small strain behaviour, as well as the use of elastic shear modular stress calculations and discontinuities in plasticity calculations. Expanded coverage is also given to dilitancy of soils and roughness of rock joints.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Stresses strains and Mohr circles
1
Chapter 2 Failure states in soil
40
Chapter 3 Failure in rock
78
Chapter 4 Applied laboratory stress paths
108
Chapter 5 Elastic stress paths and small strains
140
Chapter 6 The use of stress discontinuities in undrained plasticity calculations
168
Chapter 7 The use of stress discontinuities in drained plasticity calculations
186
Chapter 8 Stress characteristics and slip lines
216
Symbols
249
References
254
Index
260
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About the author (2004)

R. H. G. Parry, previously Secretary General of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMGE). He has worked in a government research organisation, as a manager of a geotechnical investigation form, as a university lecturer and researcher, and as a consultant.

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